We advised MSCI on the transaction

Davis Polk advised MSCI Inc. on its acquisition of PM Insights. Financial terms of the transaction were not disclosed.

MSCI strengthens global markets by connecting participants across the financial ecosystem with a common language. MSCI’s research-based data, analytics and indexes, supported by advanced technology, set standards for global investors and help its clients understand risks and opportunities so they can make better decisions and unlock innovation. MSCI serves asset managers and owners, private-market sponsors and investors, hedge funds, wealth managers, banks, insurers and corporates. PM Insights is a specialist private markets data and analytics firm that provides daily secondary market reference data on pricing, valuation, transaction and liquidity for private company securities. PM Insights aggregates proprietary data from a broad network of institutional broker-dealers and bank secondary desks, capturing data for private companies representing an estimated market cap of over $5.5 trillion as of April 2026.

The Davis Polk corporate team included partner William J. Chudd, counsel Albert Zhu and associate Evan McQuiston. Partner Travis Triano and counsel Neil Sharpe provided executive compensation advice. Partners Michael Mollerus and Dominic Foulkes and associate Yueyu Yang provided tax advice. Partner Pritesh P. Shah and associate Francesca Masella provided intellectual property advice. Members of the Davis Polk team are based in the New York, Washington DC and London offices.

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